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THE BROAD STAGE IN ASSOCIATION WITH EVA PRICE STACEY MINDICH BETSY BERNSTEIN CATHERINE ADLER/SEAN HUDOCK BURNT UMBER PRODUCTIONS AMANDA DUBOIS REBECCA GOLD SALLY HORCHOW IRIS SMITH CRAIG BALSAM/KURT DEUTSCH ERIC CORNELL/JENNA SEGAL PRESENT THE ARS NOVA PRODUCTION OF SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS WRITTEN BY BESS WOHL

DIRECTED BY

STARRING CONNOR BARRETT BEN BECKLEY EDWARD CHIN-LYN ORVILLE MENDOZA BRENNA PALUGHI SOCORRO SANTIAGO CHERENE SNOW

SET DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN LAURA JELLINEK TILLY GRIMES MIKE INWOOD

PROPS DESIGN SOUND DESIGN VIDEO DESIGN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NOAH MEASE STOWE NELSON ANDREW SCHNEIDER LAUREN Z. ADELMAN PRODUCTION GENERAL PRODUCTION CASTING MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT STAGE MANAGER DIRECTOR J. MICHAEL STAFFORD MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT JAMES STEELE HENRY RUSSELL BERGSTEIN, CSA

Originally Developed and World Premiere by Ars Nova Jason Eagan, Founding Artistic Director | Renee Blinkwolt, Managing Director Small Mouth Sounds is performed without an intermission.

Theatre at The Broad Stage made possible in part by generous gifts from Laurie & Bill Benenson and Susan Stockel. Small Mouth Sounds at The Broad Stage made possible in part by a generous gift from Linda & Michael Keston.

4 JAN 2018 CAST

Connor Barrett Ben Beckley Edward Chin-Lyn Orville Mendoza

Brenna Palughi Socorro Santiago Cherene Snow

BIOS Timbers and ). Other work includes plays with Clubbed Thumb, CONNOR BARRETT (JAN) Theater: New Georges, TACT and Berkshire Theatre The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, Group; musicals with Prospect Theater Finer Noble Gases, The Metal Children, , Public Theater/Joe’s Pub and Saul Kimmer in ’s production Playhouse on Park; four international of . Various work at Geva tours with Temporary Distortion; and Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center and five original works with The Assembly Williamstown Theatre Festival. (company member, all dir. Jess Chayes). Other New York credits include SPF On-camera credits include The Onion, and the New York Fringe Festival. The Jew of Malta and Easy Living. Film/television: The Runaround, Hot in www.benbeckley.com Cleveland, We Hate Paul Revere, True Blood, Parks and Recreation, CSI: NY, EDWARD CHIN-LYN (RODNEY) Television/ Harry’s Law, Rita Rocks, Do Not Disturb, Film: Set It Up, Jessica Jones, Feed the The Jury, Guiding Light. He has a BFA in Beast, Limitless, Elementary, Person of acting from Northwestern University and Interest, The Mysteries of Laura, Mysteries an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. at the Museum. Theater: KPOP Workshop, True West, Reconstruction, Leviticus w. BEN BECKLEY (NED) recently appeared in Bekah Brunstetter, 2015 Worldwide Play Dying For It at Festival, The Brig, Wake, You Can’t Take It (dir. Neil Pepe) and the first national tour With You, A Grimm Reality, A Year in the of Peter and the Starcatcher (dir. Alex Life. www.edwardchinlyn.com

JAN 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 5 ORVILLE MENDOZA (TEACHER) Heaven’s Prisoners, Devil’s Advocate, Select credits. Broadway: Peter and the iCreep, recently completed filming on Starcatcher, . Off- Widows directed by Steven McQueen. Broadway: Pacific Overtures (Classic Stage Co.), Found (Atlantic Theatre Co.), CHERENE SNOW (JUDY) Broadway: Cat on (CSC), Romeo and Juliet, Timon of a Hot Tin Roof with Scarlett Johansson. Athens and (all at The Public/ Off-Broadway/Regional: Walking Down NYSF). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, ACT, Broadway, Last of the Thorntons, Welcome Philadelphia Theatre Co., KC Rep., East To Fear City, Having Our Say, Little Foxes, West Players, Goodspeed, Long Wharf. Fata Morgana, brownsville song: b-side TV: The Blacklist, Law and Order: CI and for tray, Civil War Voices, Black Pearl many commercials. Orville is a Drama Desk Sings, Doubt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Coyote Award nominee and Barrymore Award on a Fence. Film/TV: Arthur, Perhaps winner. www.orvillemendoza.com Tomorrow, My Sassy Girl, City of Angels, The Long Walk Home, Law & Order, Law BRENNA PALUGHI (ALICIA) Broadway: & Order SVU, Third Watch, Chappelle’s A Time To Kill. New York: Sarah in Scared Show. of Sarah (La Mama), Naked in a Fishbowl and King Lear (Cherry Lane). Regional: BESS WOHL (PLAYWRIGHT) Bess Wohl’s World Builders (CATF), Phedre, Orlando, plays include Small Mouth Sounds Three Sisters (Yale). TV & Film: High (Top Ten of 2015 in The New York Times, Maintenance, The Family, The Mysteries of The Guardian, New York Post and others, Laura, Royal Pains, Mozart in the Jungle, Best of 2016 in New York Magazine and Synechdoche, NY, She She and the short others); Continuity (upcoming at The film Close, which she wrote and directed. Goodman Theatre New Stages); American She founded a theater company, Virago, Hero, Barcelona (LA Ovation Award and is a proud company member of nomination); Touched; In; Talk Back; The Actor’s Center in NYC. MFA Yale and the original musical Pretty Filthy in School of Drama. collaboration with Michael Friedman and ( and SOCORRO SANTIAGO (JOAN) Broadway: Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding The Bacchae. Off-Broadway: Roundabout Musical). Her work has been produced or Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick developed at Second Stage, Ars Nova, The Theatre, Public Theatre, INTAR, EST, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Geffen BAM, Ma-Yi theatre, 59E59 Theatre, Playhouse and many others. She is the Lark theatre. Regional: Long Wharf recipient of the Sam Norkin special Drama Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Desk Award for “establishing herself as Gardens (Jeff Award), Huntington (IRNE an important voice in New York theater” nomination), Shakespeare Theatre, and the John Gassner Outer Critics Guthrie Theatre. TV: Mozart in the Jungle, Circle Award. Bess also writes for film and Seven Seconds, all the “Law & Orders”, television and has developed projects for Characters, Blue Bloods, All My Children HBO, ABC, USA, Disney, Paramount and (ALMA award). Film: Freedomland, others.

6 JAN 2018 RACHEL CHAVKIN (DIRECTOR) is a Coast Rep. Opera: Opera Theatre of director, writer and dramaturg, as as St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera the artistic director of Brooklyn-based Philadelphia, Atlanta Opera, Juilliard. Obie company the TEAM (www.theteamplays. for Sustained Excellence in Design. org), whose unique collaborative process was the subject of a documentary. TILLY GRIMES (COSTUME DESIGNER) Selected work: ’s Natasha, is an English theatre designer based Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova, in New York. Recent/Upcoming Kazino, A.R.T., Broadway), Marco Ramirez’s Credits: Underground Railroad Game The Royale (Old Globe, LCT), Bess Wohl’s (International, National Tour & Ars Nova), Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova/ Small Mouth Sounds dir. Rachel Chavkin, Off-Broadway/national tour), Anaïs Deathless dir. (GoodSpeed). Mitchell’s (NYTW), Anne Awards: Lortel Nomination Best Costume Washburn’s Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC) and Design, Balsamo Grant for Immigrant multiple collaborations with Artists, Irish Design Award, Irish Times including judy’s extravaganza The Lily’s Theatre Nomination & Onstage Critics Revenge, Act 2 (HERE). The TEAM’s work Award. New York: Roundabout, Ars has been seen worldwide, including at Nova, Foundry, Red Bull Theatre, Cherry , PS122, UK’s National Lane, The Pearl, Clubbed Thumb, Here Theatre and Royal Court, the National Arts Centre, Barrow Group & La Mama. Theatre of Scotland and festivals across Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Europe, Australia and Asia. NYTW Usual New York Stage and Film, Alley Theatre, Suspect. Winner of 3 Obie Awards, Goodspeed Opera, OSF, Wilma, Hudson Drama Desk, Elliot Norton & IRNE awards, Valley Shakespeare, Two Rivers Theatre multiple Lucille Lortel nominations, twice Company, Trinity Repertory Company, nominated for the Doris Duke Impact Pittsburgh Public & Westport County Award and nominated for the Tony® Award Playhouse. Opera: Boston Lyric Opera, for Best Direction for her work on Great Philadelphia Opera, Curtis School of Comet. She and Comet’s Dave Malloy are Music & Juilliard School of Vocal Arts. recipients of the 2017 Smithsonian Award Guest artist at Julliard, Duke University, for Ingenuity. University of Rochester, Trinity College Dublin. M.F.A from NYU Tisch. LAURA JELLINEK (SCENIC DESIGNER) Broadway: Marvin’s Room. Off-Broadway: MIKE INWOOD (LIGHTING DESIGN) The Antipodes, Everybody, The Wolves, Off-Broadway premieres of: Small A Life (Lortel award, Drama Desk Mouth Sounds (Signature Theatre), HIR nomination), Marjorie Prime, The Nether (), Stupid Fucking Bird (Lortel nomination), The Village Bike, (Pearl), Out Cold/Zippo Songs (BAM), Half Buzzer. Multiple projects with The Debate Moon Bay (Lesser America/Cherry Lane), Society & The Mad Ones. Regional: Yale Miles for Mary (The Mad Ones). Regional Rep, Bard Summerscape, Cincinnati productions with: Boston Lyric Opera, Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Magic Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Perseverance

JAN 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 7 Theatre, Company of Fools, Hudson Valley w/Lauren Port. NY Theatre: The Shakespeare Festival. Emmy Award (NBC, Lyons (Broadway), Gloria, Kid Victory, 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games). Middletown, Wig Out, Natasha, Pierre www.mikeinwood.com & the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova – original production), , 3C, Gorilla STOWE NELSON (SOUND DESIGN). New Man. TV: US Casting Black Mirror (S3-4); York: Animal (Atlantic); The Skin of Our Mozart in the Jungle, The Sinner. Film: Teeth (TFANA); The Wolves (Playwrights Saturday Church, Beauty Mark, It Felt Realm); Miles for Mary, Samuel & Alasdair Like Love, Love After Love, Grandma. (Mad Ones, Drama Desk nom.); Indian NY Casting: Spider-Man Homecoming. Summer (Playwrights Horizons); The Associate: Manchester by the Sea, Grand Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Budapest Hotel, Frances Ha, Two Lovers. Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre). Former Manager of East Coast Casting for Regional: The Roommate (Williamstown); Warner Bros. in NY. What Would Crazy Horse Do? (KC Rep); Cry it Out, I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), LAUREN Z. ADLEMAN (ASSOCIATE Book of Will (Denver Center). More info: DIRECTOR) is a Brooklyn-based director www.wingspace.com/stowe who has an affinity for stories exploring the nature of identity colliding with an ANDREW SCHNEIDER (VIDEO DESIGN) external culture. Recent credits include is a performer, writer and interactive the premiere productions of Black electronics artist. Performance works: Hollow (Signature/Columbia); Journey to YOUARENOWHERE (2015 , the Center of a Black Hole (Alchemical); 2016 Drama Desk nominee), Dance/Field Ambition: the female American serial (2014, Roulette), Wow+Flutter (2010, The killer musical (Ars Nova/ANT Fest); and Chocolate Factory). Video design: Small Malefactions (Chinatown Soup). 2015- Mouth Sounds (2014, The Bushwick Starr); 2016 Robert Moss Directing Fellow at The Wooster Group (company member Playwrights Horizons. 2017 2007-2014). Directors Lab Alum. www.LaurenZA.me

NOAH MEASE (PROP DESIGN). Off- J. MICHAEL STAFFORD (PRODUCTION Broadway: John (Signature, Obie Award); SUPERVISOR) joins the production as Hadestown (NYTW); Natasha, Pierre & the a freelance Production Manager and Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino, A.R.T.); Small Technical Director based in Brooklyn, Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova); NY. Over the past decade he has worked (Soho Rep, TFANA); The Nether (MCC); in production departments with various Jacuzzi (Ars Nova); Blood Play (The touring and NYC-based companies Bushwick Starr, The Public). Playwriting: such as: Maximum Entertainment, Mind Republic (JACK, Manbites Dog), Omega The Gap [MTG], Technical Producing Kids (). Group [TPG], Troika, Big League Prod., HENRY RUSSELL BERGSTEIN, CSA Williamstown Theatre Festival and The (CASTING DIRECTOR) cast the original Juilliard School. Graduated with a BFA in NY productions of Small Mouth Sounds

8 JAN 2018 Theatre Design & Technology from The Seinfeld); (Tony®-nominated Musical University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Revival); starring (Tony®-nominated Play Revival); JAMES STEELE (PRODUCTION STAGE Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking; The MANAGER). Broadway: Mrs. Warren’s Addams Family (starring and Profession (Roundabout); One Man, Two Bebe Neuwirth); as well as several solo Guvnors. Off Broadway: By the Water shows and critically acclaimed concerts (MTC), Pageant (SAS), Tail! Spin! … starring The Temptations & The Four Tops; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Kathy Griffin; Lewis Black; and Hershey (Ars Nova/Kazino), My Name is Asher Lev Felder. Recent off-Broadway projects (), An Iliad (NYTW). The include KPOP (Ars Nova), Cruel Intentions Tribute Artist (Primary Stages), The Divine The Musical [(Le) Poisson Rouge)], the Sister (DRTM). Thanks to Rachel, Bess and Drama Desk-nominated Found (Atlantic Rachel Z., love to Mom and Gram. Theater Company & Philadelphia Theater Company); Benjamin Scheuer’s award- MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT (GENERAL winning The Lion (Drama Desk winner, MANAGEMENT) is a producing, developing Off-West End winner for Best Musical); and management company founded by and Bess Wohl’s critically acclaimed Small Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale and Eva Mouth Sounds. International and Touring Price; and is joined by Managing Director/ Credits include: The Hip Hop Nutcracker, General Manager Carl Flanigan. Select featuring rap icon Kurtis Blow, Carefree: credits on Broadway, Off-Broadway Dancin’ with Fred and Ginger (Directed/ and on tour include Born For This; Cruel Choreographed by Tony Winner Warren Intentions – The Musical; Frankie Valli Carlyle), as well as The Magic School and the Four Seasons – On Broadway!; Bus, Live! The Climate Challenge; Ella, a Carefree: Dancin’ With Fred & Ginger; The bio musical about and music of Lion; The Hip Hop Nutcracker; 50 Shades! Ella Fitzgerald; ‘S Wonderful: The New The Musical; Ivy + Bean The Musical; Blank! Gershwin Musical; Tomie dePaola’s Strega The Musical; Colin Quinn: Long Story Short. Nona The Musical; ’s I Love EVA PRICE (PRODUCER) is a Tony® A Piano (National Tour and Japan); The Award-winning producer whose credits Great American Trailer Park Musical; include over 15 Broadway plays, musicals Private Jokes, Public Places (London). and concerts. She is a member of The For five years Eva worked as an Broadway League’s Board of Governors assignment editor and coordinating and was named one of Crain’s NY 40 producer for special projects at ABC Under Forty Rising Business Stars. Current News, spending her last year producing and notable productions include: Dear and reporting on stories relating to Evan Hansen (6 Tony® Awards); On Your Broadway for ABCNEWS.COM. Upcoming: Feet! (The Story of Gloria and Emilio Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill. Estefan); Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!; Peter and the Starcatcher (5 Tony® Awards); Colin Quinn Long Story Short (directed by Jerry

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